Glenrothes

Glenrothes is a large town in , with a population in 2016 of 38,510. It's a post-War "New Town" with uninspiring architecture and not normally a town people visit.
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  • Type: Town with 39,300 residents
  • Description: town in Fife, Scotland, UK
  • Also known as: “Gleann Rathais” and “Glenrothes, Fife”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Markinch railway station and Kingdom Shopping Centre.

Railway station
Photo: Scott Cormie, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a railway station in , , , which serves the Glenrothes, and Levenmouth areas of Fife. The station is managed by ScotRail and is on the main Edinburgh to Aberdeen Line, 33+1⁄4 miles north of .

Shopping center
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The is an indoor retail and commercial complex in Glenrothes, located in the town centre. It is the largest in and is one of the largest single-level indoor shopping centres in with around 40,000 m2 of floorspace.

Stone
Photo: Sandy Gerrard, CC BY-SA 2.0.
is a prehistoric monument complex in Glenrothes, , . It is protected as a scheduled monument. With the development of Glenrothes new town in the latter half of the 20th Century an adjacent residential area was developed around the complex carrying the same name.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Markinch and Leslie.

Town
Photo: Mcwesty, Public domain.
is both a village and a parish in the heart of , Scotland. According to an estimate taken in 2008, the village has a population of 2,420. The civil parish had a population of 16,530.

Village
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is a large village and parish on the northern tip of the River Leven Valley, to the west of Glenrothes in . According to the population estimates, the village has a population of 3,092.

Village
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is a village in , Scotland. It is between and Glenrothes, and stands between the River Ore and Lochty Burn, which are at opposite ends of the main street. is situated 2½ miles southeast of Glenrothes.

Glenrothes

Latitude
56.1962° or 56° 11′ 46″ north
Longitude
-3.1716° or 3° 10′ 18″ west
Population
39,300
Elevation
302 feet (92 metres)
United Nations Location Code
GB GLS
Open location code
9C8R5RWH+F8
Open­Street­Map ID
node 26680363
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
2648438
Wiki­data ID
Q943351
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Glenrothes” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “غلينروثيس”
  • Asturian: “Glenrothes”
  • Azerbaijani: “Qlenrots”
  • Basque: “Glenrothes”
  • Belarusian: “Глентарэс”
  • Bengali: “গ্লেনরোথ’স”
  • Bengali: “গ্লেনরোথস নর্থ”
  • Breton: “Gleann Rathais”
  • Bulgarian: “Гленротхес”
  • Cebuano: “Glenrothes”
  • Chinese: “格倫羅西斯”
  • Chinese: “格兰罗斯”
  • Chinese: “格兰罗特斯”
  • Chinese: “格蘭羅斯”
  • Chinese: “格蘭羅特斯”
  • Cornish: “Gleann Rathais”
  • Czech: “Glenrothes”
  • Danish: “Glenrothes”
  • Dutch: “Glenrothes”
  • Esperanto: “Glenrothes”
  • French: “Glenrothes”
  • German: “Glenrothes”
  • Gujarati: “ગ્લેનરોથસ”
  • Gujarati: “ગ્લેનરોથેસ”
  • Hebrew: “גלנרות’ס”
  • Irish: “Gleann Rathais”
  • Irish: “Gleann Ráthais”
  • Italian: “Glenrothes”
  • Japanese: “グレンロス・ノース”
  • Japanese: “グレンロス”
  • Japanese: “グレンロセス”
  • Kannada: “ಗ್ಲೆನ್ರೋಥೆಸ್”
  • Korean: “글렌로시스”
  • Lithuanian: “Glenrotesas”
  • Manx: “Gleann Rathais”
  • Moksha: “Глэнротс”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Glenrothes”
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: “Glenrothes”
  • Norwegian: “Glenrothes”
  • Persian: “گلنراتیس”
  • Polish: “Glenrothes”
  • Portuguese: “Glenrothes”
  • Russian: “Гленротес”
  • Russian: “Гленротс”
  • Scots: “Glenrothes”
  • Scottish Gaelic: “Gleann Rathais”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Glenrothes”
  • Slovak: “Glenrothes”
  • South Azerbaijani: “قلنراتیس”
  • Spanish: “Glenrothes (Escocia)”
  • Spanish: “Glenrothes (Fife)”
  • Spanish: “Glenrothes”
  • Swedish: “Glenrothes”
  • Tamil: “கிளென்ரோத்ஸ்”
  • Tamil: “கிளென்றோதேஸ்”
  • Telugu: “గ్లెన్ రోథ్స్”
  • Telugu: “గ్లెన్రోథెస్”
  • Ukrainian: “Гленротс”
  • Urdu: “جلینرودیس”
  • Welsh: “Gleann Rathais”
  • Welsh: “Glenrothes”
  • “Gleann Rathais”
  • “Glenrothes”
  • “Glenrothes - Gleann Rathais”

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